Head for water connections.



No. 803,364. PATBNTED OUT. 31, 1905. B. RUBISPIERRE.

HEAD FOR WATER CONNECTIONS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY17l 1905.

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HEAD FOR WATER CONNECTIONS- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 31, 1905.

Application filed May 17, 1905. Serial No 260,778.

To to whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERNARD RUBISPIERRE, a citizen of France, and aresident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the countyand State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Head forWaterConnections, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a head for leaders or otherwater connections which will be exceedingly durable, being constructedof but two pieces instead of the many parts usually employed, and toprovide a construction wherein the two parts can be economieallymade andconnected and rendered transversely and laterally strong with the leastpossible expenditure of labor.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a'building, illustratingthe adaptation of the improved head to the leader, the head and leaderbeing shown in side elevation with parts broken away. Fig. 2 is anenlarged transverse section through the head, the section being takenpractically on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a front elevation ofthe improved head, and Fig. 4 is a plan view of the blank from which thefront and side sections are formed.

The head is of box-like construction and comprises a rectangular body Aand a circular reduced lower terminal A. The body A -is largest at thetop and comprises a front panel a, side panels a and a", which panelsare made from one piece of material, and a back panel a which is made ofa separate piece of material. The back panel a of the body is straightthroughout its length, and all of the panels constituting the body havea downward and inward taper at their marginal edges. The upper portionof the side panels a and a are practically straight, and their remainingportions 11 are more or less concave ,while the upper portion 12 ofthefront panel a is more or less flaring, having a downward and inwardinclination from its upper edge. The remaining portion 13 of the saidfront panel is convexed.

The upper marginal portion of the head is strengthened by theconventional wired seam 14, and where the upper and lower portions 10and 11 of the side panels and the upper and lower portions 12 and 13 ofthe front panel connect transverse ribs 15 and 16 are formed bycorrugating the material at its in ner face, and where the side andfront panels meet vertical interior corrugations are produced, formingthereby vertical ribs 17, and transverse ribs 18, similarly made, meetthe vertical ribs 17 at the lower end portion of the body, as shown inFig. 3. In this manner the head may be made of a light material and yetwill be rendered exceedingly strong and durable.

As may have been inferred, the head is made of but two pieces ofmaterial, the front and the sides being formed from the blank B(illustrated in Fig. 4) and the back being made of another single piecesuitably shaped to meet the side edges of the blank B when it has beenbent to form the front and side portions of the head.

The blank is provided with a central straight upper-edge line 19, andthe said upper edge at each end of the straight portion 19 is inclineddownwardly and outwardly, as is indicated at 20 and 21. The side edges22 of the blank B are inclined inward from the upper edges to a point 6near the lower edge of the blank, so that the lower portion of the blankis much narrower than the upper portion, and from the points I) of theblank B above referred to the side edges are given a decided inwardinclination to the lower edge of the said blank, as is indicated at 23.The lower edge of the blank is concave, as is shown at 24, the concavityextending from the lowest side point at one side of the blank to thecorresponding point at the opposite side of said blank. its inner faceon the longitudinal dotted lines 25 shown in Fig. 4 and on thetransverse dotted lines 26 shown in the same figure. The blank is thenbent upon itself where the corrugations are to produce the three panelsnamely, the front panel a and the two side panels a and a or the blankmay be bent simply on the dotted lines above mentioned and after beingbent the corrugations named are made, and as the blank is bent onthelower dotted line 26 that portion of the blank which is below thatline is curved so as to form the front and side portion of the lowercircular section A of the head. Then the metal form- The blank is thencorrugated at IIO ing the back panel (1 having been properly cut, itsside edges are connected with the rear side edges of the side panels aand a by means of lap-seams 27 (shown in Fig. 2) or by other approvedmeans, and the lower portion of the back is curved to complete thecircular formation of the lower section A of the head, and this curvedlower portion of the back is soldered or otherwise suitably attached tothe corresponding curved portion of the bodysection A.

The body of the device is very large, affording plenty of room for thewater, so that it is not liable to freeze, especially as the bottomopening is unobstructed and the water has therefore free and speedydelivery to the leader. Thus the device is not only prevented fromfreezing, but is also not liable to choke.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. A head for water connections, constructed of twopieces of material, one piece being bent upon itself to form the frontand sides and the other piece constituting the back, the two piecesbeing connected, the said head having a flat back, downwardly-taperedfront and sides and acircular lower terminal, the front being conveXedbetween its top and bottom and the sides correspondingly concaved, thesaid head being also provided with longitudinal ribs where the front andsides connect, and with transverse ribs at the top and bottom of theconvexed and the concaved surfaces.

2. In a head for water connections, a blank for forming the front andsides of the same, the upper ed e of the blank being centrally straightand its end portions inclined downward in opposite directions, the sideedges of the blank being inclined from the top down wardly and inwardly,the lower portions of the said side edges being given a more welldefinedinward inclination, and the lower edge of the blank having a concavedcontour.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

BERNARD RUBISPIERRE.

Witnesses J. FRED. AOKER, JNo. M. BITTER.

